Chris Head Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Yep, got it all now.Slow as usual....[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Gosh! 210 posts and....erm.....20 photos of people.[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 11, 2006 Author Share Posted December 11, 2006 Move your pic's to the new 'Forum Members (photo's)' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 What, to the 'no talking' allowed thread? You must be kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 11, 2006 Author Share Posted December 11, 2006 Oh come on Tres, it doesn't actually say that. it's worth a try otherwise what is the point of having a separate photo section.The eternal optimist......................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I agree that this thread is better off in the lounge, because it's (or was) more about seeing what members look like, than photography.Much of the chatter in the thread relates to that, or about the removal of various photos. Removing more will just make this even more nonsensical than it is already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 11, 2006 Author Share Posted December 11, 2006 [:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 How can you bear those bugs?Er - can you actually see where you are going through that? [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 11, 2006 Author Share Posted December 11, 2006 [:P][:D]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Okay.Here's me again.[IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/cassiscassis/mudbird418-08-200512-06-36.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 So who had the *rs* out of your trousers then? (yes, I know they're chaps.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Where were you going ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 To the middle of a dried up lake to rescue a bird that was stuck in the mud. Unfortunately, it died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Oh, that was kind of you Phil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 A true story.Years ago when I was working (as a student before you ask) in the mental hospital laundry we hippy students found an injured thrush at lunchtime. We had a pretty good idea that the bird was moribund, and that the kindest thing to do would be to end it quickly, but we were all too squeamish. So we made a little nest of grass and leaves on the lawn, and made it as comfortable as possible. We looked out from time to time to see how it was.That afternoon they mowed the lawn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Oh dear. Rather messy. At least the thought was there, Dick.Here's one of our more successful rescues:[IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/cassiscassis/chaffinchbump1-1.jpg[/IMG]This is Bumpy the chaffinch. He still visits the birdtable.And this is Mallen the goldcrest. Last saw him early summer.[IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/cassiscassis/goldcrest1a.jpg[/IMG]The birds fly into the windows despite our windows being multipaned and having outlines of birds of prey on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 11, 2006 Author Share Posted December 11, 2006 We had that very problem with the large french windows. I even had a kestrel whack into them one day. Thought he was dead, but a half-hour of tlc and he was ok. I don't know about you but holding a wild bird like that is a 'full-on' life experience.I now hang old CDs on fishing line in front of the windows and they spin in the breeze. So far, no more impacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I can imagine the ol' CDs do the trick but I can't get away with it here (B&B) 'cos of what it would look like.What I don't get, Bugs, is that the windows, though large, are made of several smaller panes about 30cm by 50cm, not like a picture window. Actually, they are also porte-fenetres. But they also fly into the normal window (about 1m by 1.5m high and made of 6 smaller panes) when the cover is removed from the tonnelle outside the window.Happily, more survive than die from the impact but we still have maybe 3-4 fatalities a year, which is a bit distressing. [:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted December 11, 2006 Author Share Posted December 11, 2006 I couldn't work it out at first, but when I stood back and looked at the windows all you could see was the reflection of the huge flowering cherry tree we have in the garden. That was the birds-eye view. I didn't want to hand CDs but we witnessed two young thrushes smash and die, one after the other and that was enough, horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 It doesn't have to be the house - we saw a young robin fly into the side window of a builder's van, with fatal results. Chrispp has posted that 1/3 of young birds die in flying accidents, and I can believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Hoddy was telling us about an owl that had a car accident on another thread. I think she was fibbing - there's no way an owl can drive a car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 The oddest one I had was last winter when working in the barn, a robin walked in and fell to the ground. It flopped around as if drunk, totally unable to balance on two feet. I picked it up and put it in a box. It's head was all gunky, beak and eyes gummed up. I cleaned him up with a cotton bud and warm water and kept an eye on him, leaving him a saucer of water, some raisins, a pile of moss in the corner of the box and an overhead bulb for warmth. After a couple of hours, having crapped an enormous amount for such a small thing, he managed, with encouragement, to stand up without falling over. I let him out of the box and after a bit of a wobbly start he pulled himself together and walked out of the barn door, then flew into a bush. A few minutes later he was stuffing his beak on the bird table. I still have no idea what he had been doing before he came into the barn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Maybe the robin was drunk. Perhaps a neighbour had put out a beer trap for slugs and the bird had been drinking from it? That doesn't explain why his beak and eyes were gunky though, unless birds have different reactions to alcohol than humans. Good to hear that he survived his ordeal, whatever it had been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Same thing happens to my husband every sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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